Re: Rendering Two Dots Above a Character

[Omid Mo'menzadeh]

Wow! Although I'd want to have the two dots vertically aligned, this great help! I really wanted to know how to use _expression_ marks on text, and the Ttablature format code is nice to have as an example for similar situations.

Thank you so much.

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 1:31 PM Valentin Petzel <valentin@petzel.at> wrote:

Hello Omid,

Maybe something like this could work.

Cheers,
Valentin

Am Montag, 24. Jänner 2022, 20:56:11 CET schrieb Omid Mo'menzadeh:
> Hello all.
> I am trying to create some sort of tablature for Kalimba, treating it like
> a one-string instrument with fret-labels. I want to use letters like c, ċ,
> ċ̇ (or c𐽉), etc. I figured there are Unicode characters to do exactly
> that, "combining dot above" and "combining two dots above", etc. However,
> LilyPond does not seem to be able to render "combining two dots above", and
> two "combining dot above" characters (rendered correctly by my browser, as
> well as Emacs) result in the two dots to be rendered almost on top of each
> other in LilyPond. I have attached a rather minimal example.
>
> I would appreciate any other solutions to this problem, or a way to fix the
> rendering issue.
>
> Thanks everyone.